291 has featured unusual portrait commissions before—namely, MoMA’s offer to sell you your genetic portrait for $550. Now the ever-entertaining (and rather brilliant) Vik Muniz is offering something different: your portrait with a loved one in chocolate for $110,000.
Sound like a lot of money? Well, work by Muniz generally sells for quite a […]
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The latest edition of Afterimage, the excellent journal of media arts and cultural criticism, is now out in stores. In this issue, among other great content largely focused on digital media, you’ll find an essay I wrote about Facebook and its impact on vernacular photography entitled “The Impersonal Album: […]
The Globe and Mail reported today that the Sanders portrait of William Shakespeare has passed the most recent analysis in the battery of tests being undertaken to prove the unprovable–that it represents the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted while he was still alive. It set me off on a search of portraits of […]
Even among the numerous jumbo-sized boats that dot Chelsea Piers on any given day, it was impossible to miss the SeaFair this past week. The shiny white megayacht, complete with its name in (neon blue) lights on either side, has garnered a lot of media attention recently with its novel approach to the game […]
An article on NewScientist.com describes new software being developed to help bridge the gap between verbal and visual searches. Pretty cool. Until now, most engines like Google have relied on tags attached to pictures, or the page in which photographs and other art are embedded, to produce image results. This new prototype […]
